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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0351 BR9-58 to BR9-59

Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Henry B. Green (Louisville, Kentucky, chair maker) N00012451 1832? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, chair maker. Kentucky native. Married to Hannah Green. Father of Harry Green. Chair maker in Louisville, Kentucky in 1860.

Relationships Social: Richard Owen Priest (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman) Social: John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat") Social: George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. ) Social: J. O. Howe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff) Social: Jeremiah Antle (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman) Social: John L. Martz (Louisville, Kentucky, city marshal and night policeman) Social: Robert A. Seay (Louisville, Kentucky, saddler, agent, and policeman) Social: Peter McKegney (Louisville, Kentucky, overseer and drayman) Social: William S. D. Megowan (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, sheriff, and major (U.S.A))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 32. William Fricks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00012452 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Mentioned in a petition from Henry B. Green to Thomas Bramlette in Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Social: Henry B. Green (Louisville, Kentucky, chair maker and policeman)

KYR-0001-004-0351. George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor) N00000262 1802-12-18 1870-01-22 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, editor. Connecticut native. Son of Rufus Prentice and Sarah Stanton Prentice. Married to Harriet G. Benham Prentice in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 18, 1835. Father of William Courtland Prentice, Harriet Prentice, Clarence Joseph Prentice, and Amelia Prentice. Attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1820 to 1823. Studied law in Windham County, Connecticut, in 1825. Editor of the Connecticut Mirror in 1827. Editor of the Hartford New England Review in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1828. Author in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1830. Editor of the Louisville Journal from 1830 until 1868. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 277B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County Ward 2, p. 572. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 260B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817873. "Death of Mr. Prentice," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 23, 1870, p. 2. Thomas D. Clark, "George Dennison Prentice," in John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 722-23. Peter B. Muir (Louisville, KY, attorney and circuit judge 5th Jud Distr) N002003 1822-10-19 1911-11-03 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Son of Jasper Muir and Isabella Brown Muir. Married to Sophronia Rizer Muir. Father of Bell Muir, Thomas R. Muir, Sydney S. Muir, Upton W. Muir, Lilian Muir, Nellie Muir, and Sophronia Muir. Graduated from Hanover College in Jefferson County, Indiana. Attorney in Nelson County, Kentucky. Opened law practice in partnership with Thomas Riley in Louisville in 1852. Circuit judge of the 5th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1858 to 1864.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Career Ended: Judge P. B. Muir Succumbs in Ninetieth Year,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 4, 1911, p. 8. "Peter B. Muir" in Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 10-11. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association Held in Louisville, KY. July 10 and 11, 1912. (Henderson, KY: Henderson Job House, ND) 40-44. Henry C. Thomas (Louisville, KY, jail warden) N002026 1808? 1884-04-16 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, jail warden. Kentucky native. Married to Julia Pope Thomas in Bullitt County, Kentucky, on May 24, 1833. Jail warden in Louisville in 1860. Assistant jailer in Louisville in 1864.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court Legal: Ohio Circuit Court

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 478. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 249. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, p. 495B. Find A Grave, "Henry C. Thomas, Sr. (1808-1884)," Memorial 65347982, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65347982 (accessed December 4, 2019). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film #000482690, pp. 62-63. Kentucky Death Records (Large Cities). Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Microfilm roll #7007127, Louisville Deaths, p. 28. KYR-0001-004-0134. KYR-0001-004-1350. Robert F. Baird (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney & politician) N002040 1815-12-15 1883-10-31 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Graduate of Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. Practiced law in partnership with T. J. Heady and Joseph Lancaster. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1849 to 1851. Attorney in Louisville in 1850. Member of the law firm of Baird & Price in partnership with Jonathan Hobson Price in Louisville.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 7B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 611. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, p. 430A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 145, p. 32B. “Judge Baird Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Nov. 1, 1883, p. 6. Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat") N00005177 1824? 1897-02-24 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, police department clerk and chief of police. Kentucky native. Assistant chief of police in 1856 and 1862. Chief of police in Louisville in 1858. Clerk in the Louisville Police Department from 1860 to 1864.

Relationships Legal: Isaac Rosenbaum (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

“Died in St. Louis: Tribute to Jacob B. Ehrich, an Old Time Citizen of Louisville,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 18, 1897, p. A8. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 81. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police: History and Personnel (Louisville, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2005), 35. KYR-0001-021-0013. KYR-0001-021-0041. KYR-0001-005-0001. KYR-0001-005-0041. Richard Owen Priest (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman) N00012445 1810-12-25 1890-04-06 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Priest and Lucy Priest. Married to Ann Hurd Priest in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1852. Father of Kate Priest. Carpenter in Louisville in 1850. Patrolman in Louisville in 1853. Carpenter in Louisville in 1860. Chief of Police in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Political: William Milo Stone (Sixth governor of Iowa, attorney, and judge.) Legal: City of Louisville Police Department Legal: Emma Morris (Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Fugitive from justice.) Legal: Joseph Swinney (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and agent.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 198A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 636. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707. "Dick Priest Dead," Courier-Journal(Louisville, KY), April 7, 1890, p 7. Philip Tomppert, Jr. (Louisville, Kentucky, city court clerk) N002038 1839-02-13 1895-12-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Philip Tomppert and Margaret Tomppert. Married to Henrietta Reuning Tomppert in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 3, 1861. Father of Louis P. Tomppert and Eugenia E. Tomppert. Attended school in Louisville in 1850. Interpreter of the City Court in Louisville in 1861. Clerk of the Louisville City Court in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 19B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 70B. "Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 26078. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709, p. 82. “Philip Tomppert Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 23, 1895, p. 8. "J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr (1839-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 155379750, accessed October 25, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155379750. Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) N00000219 1808-10-29 1865-07-03 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Richmond, Virginia, native. Son of Benjamin Wolfe and Sophia Wolfe. Married to Mary Vernon Wolfe on October 3, 1838. Father of Ella Wolfe, William C. Wolfe, Sophia Wolfe, Nathaniel Wolfe, Vernon Wolfe, Preston Wolfe, and Mary Wolfe. Graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Commonwealth's attorney for Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1839 to 1852. Owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Silas N. Hodges in 1861. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1853 to 1855. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: E. K. Seely (Louisville, Kentucky, physician of the Jefferson County jail) Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: Meade Circuit Court Legal: Henry Crutcher Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, representative, attorney, and Court of Appeals Justice) Legal: Robert Ellis (Louisville, Kentucky, steward) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Marshall Woodson (Louisville, Kentucky, steward) Social: Conrad Shroeder (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Social: Caleb Wallace Logan (Jefferson County, KY, attorney & judge) Social: Madison "Matt" Pyles (Louisville, Kentucky physician)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 759. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 95. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 9. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 357. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 267. “Wolfe, Nathaniel” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 962. John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) N00000782 1826-12-17 1907-12-31 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Barr and Ann Watson Barr. Married to Susan Rogers Barr in Louisville, Kentucky, November 23, 1859. Father of John W. Barr, Jr., Anna W. Barr, and Caroline H. Barr. Graduated from the law school of Transylvania University in Lexington in 1847. Attorney in Woodford County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Joseph B. Kinkead. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in partnership with John Kemp Goodloe from 1864 to 1868.

Relationships Economic: Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 418A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 353. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819611. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 159-60. Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men of the State (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 37-38. “Death of Judge Barr,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 1, 1908, p. 4. "Judge John Watson Barr (1826-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6589279, accessed April 14, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6589279. George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) N00001155 1807? 1877? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy A. Guy Johnston in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1828. Father of George G. Johnston. Married to Rosa A. Johnston. Father of John C. Johnston, Louisa Johnston, Eliza Johnston, Henry S. Johnston, Florence Johnston, George W. Johnston and Rosey Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1829 and 1832. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1838 to 1842. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Shelby County. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Judge of the Louisville City Court from 1854 to 1865. Elected circuit judge of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky in Jefferson County in August 1865.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Seventh Judicial District of Kentucky Political: James C. Gill (stub, Louisville) Legal: Frederick Wobbe (Louisville Deputy County Clerk) Legal: William L. Gray, Jr (Louisville) Legal: Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Legal: John Joyce (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and prov govt rep) Legal: James G. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Louis B. Bates (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Abraham P. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat engineer and printer) Legal: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Squire Caple (Jefferson County, Kentucky, cooper and soldier.) Legal: Joseph F. Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky. Kentucky native.) Legal: Benjamin Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky.) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Social: George Wolf (Louisville, Kentucky, jeweler) Social: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Social: W. Heffernan (Unknown (Jefferson County)) Social: J. A. Thomas (Louisville petition signer for Bridget Kearney) Social: Joseph C. Ellis (Louisville, Jefferson County, clerk) Social: Eugene Dougherty (Louisville, Jefferson County, shoemaker ) Social: James Treasy (Louisville, Kentucky, saddler) Social: John Koch (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: A. Loeser (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky. ) Social: George Johnson (Unknown (Jefferson County, composite bio)) Social: James O'Neal (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: John J. McDevitt (Louisville, Jefferson County, minister) Social: James McDermott (Louisville, Kentucky, grocer) Social: James Ryder (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: James C. Gill (Jefferson County, Kentucky, coroner) Social: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: Michael Dawson (Jefferson County, tavern keeper) Social: George A. Blenner (Louisville, Jefferson County, resident) Social: Augustus G. Schmidt (Louisville, Kentucky, druggist) Social: Samuel Birch (Louisville, Jefferson Co., provision dealer) Political: Hervey Seaton (Louisville, Jefferson County, day policeman - 6th Ward) Political: Martin Corcoran (Louisville, Jefferson County, tinner) Political: Thomas Slevin (Louisville, Kentucky, dry goods merchant. ) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: William McGuire (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) Political: Thomas P. Cain (Louisville, Jefferson County, dry goods merchant) Social: Richard Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, cook/criminal) Social: Jane Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, seamstress) Social: Conrad Shroeder (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: Louisville Police Court Social: Clarinda Tackett Rasure (Julia Dean) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.) Social: Sally White (Jefferson County, Kentucky, washer woman.) Social: William E. Curry (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, policeman.) Social: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Social: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 369B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p 221. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, pp. 495B-96A. History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1 (Cleveland: L. A. Williams & Co., 1882), 511-12. John M. Palmer, Personal Reflections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Earnest Life (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1901), 243. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259285. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 709. "George W Johnston (unknown-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 150314903, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150314903. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) N00003714 1822? 1895-04-22 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal. Indiana native. Married to Amanda C. Hydes in 1851. Father of William H. Hydes and Calvert Hydes. Bricklayer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Elected M. W. Grand Patriarch of The Grand Encampment Oddfellows Lodge in Louisville on July 16, 1856. Plasterer in Louisville in 1860. Household employed one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. City marshal in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Social: Henry B. Green (Louisville, Kentucky, chair maker and policeman) Legal: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 292A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 814. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 360. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 6, p. 281B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 550B. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 36. "Born in a Log Cabin. Funeral of William R. Hydes Yesterday Afternoon. A Louisvillian For Seventy-Six Years. A Local Landmark," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 24, 1895, p. 6. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, June 1863, p. 153. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 535. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency Thos E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Henry B. Green a citizen of Louisville will respectfully state that some time before the last Term of the city court of Louisville, one William Frickswho had been a short time in the city & with whom your Petitioner had formed a slight acquaintance & from his conduct & deportment had also received the opinion that he was an Industrious Worthy Young man; was arrested on a charge of Petit Larceny. (stealing a small perfume bag worth one Dollar) from a Drug store; your Petitioner was Induced to believe that the Young man, was not guilty of an Intentional Violation of the Law, but had taken the article more in a Joke or when on a Frolic, and being applied too by said Fricks who had but few acquaintances in the city, your Petitioner became the Security of said Fricks for his appearance in said court to answer said charge in the sum of $100: That said Fricks was Indicted by the Grand Jury ofsaid court and on the calling of said case for Trial said Fricks failed to appear having left & gone to Nashville, and a forfeiture was Entered & Scifa issued and at the December Term 1863 ofsaid city court a Judgement was rendered against your Petitioner for the sum of $100. with costs. Your Petitioner states that he was Induced to become Security for said Fricks solely for the reason that he did ^not^ believe he could have been Guilty of

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the offense charged against him & for no fee or promise of reward. Your Petitioner is a young man of verry moderate means & has recently commenced business in the city & is not able to pay said Judgement without materially affecting his business. and as it was an act of Friendship only for a young man of whom he entertained a good opinion, he hopes your Excellency will remit that part ofsaid Judgement which is coming to the Commonwealth & he as in duty bound will &c

Henry B Green

The undersigned unite in asking a remission of that part of the Judgement mentioned within & prayed to be remitted. We Know Mr Green & believe the statements made by him in the Petition are True.

Geo. D. Prentice. P. B. Muir H, C. Thomas R. F. Baird J. B. Ehrich R O, Priest Phil Tomppert Jr, C, C, C, L, Nat Wolfe Jno W Barr

We are personally acquainted with the Petitioner Mr Green & we believe the statements made by him are True; & we believe it would be proper to extend to him Executive clemency

Geo. W. Johnston Jc c L W. G, Reasor atto W R Hydes M C L

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Remit except fees & costs Tho E Bramlette